“A good leader knows how to define the job requirements and tasks – and get his/her employees to solve them in the ideal way. Besides this, the leader should back off from the privacy/personal lives of their staff”, says Anders Raastrup Kristensen, a researcher at Copenhagen Business School. Danish group members can hear the Radio interview with Anders by means of the link below. However, for non-Danes, here’s my translation of Anders’ core message: “Anders further claims that leaders are currently ignoring the ‘core’ of the leadership responsibility, i.e. the work, which must be carried out by each employee or team – in favor of inquiring into ‘how each person feels and is dealing with their work vs their work life balance.”

Leaders, this means, you are required to put all of your competencies into exercising ‘everyday leadership’.¨

Of course, you must also acquire and apply good people skills, but you must use them as a means and not the end of your leadership work.

Do I need to say that I LOVE this message?

This accurately pinpoints and confirms what has been my main driver to write the Direct Leadership book and create the accompanying training programs and materials:

It is not fair – neither to the leaders nor to their staff – to appoint leaders without making it clear to them what basic, everyday leadership work implies!